Configuring the navigation

Users generally explore an Opendatasoft portal by first visiting the root page, then navigating to other pages using the header located at the top of any part of that portal.

Both are configurable via the Portal > Navigation subsection of the back office.

The root page is the default page on which a user lands when accessing the portal via its main URL (for example, workspacename.opendatasoft.com). By default, the root page is the Explore page, which displays the catalog of datasets of the portal. It can be replaced with any other page available within the workspace, such as a home page build with HTML & CSS using the Pages section of the back office (see Creating a page with the Code editor).

To change the root page:

1. In the Navigation configuration interface, look for the Root page configuration.

2. Click on the drop-down menu to choose a page among the list.

3. Click on the Save button in the top right corner.

All available pages are displayed in the drop-down list, but private pages are grayed out. Only public pages can indeed be chosen as the root page.

The navigation header located at the very top of any page of the front office contains items that link to either chosen pages of the portal or external websites. The default menu items of the navigation header are:

• Data, with a link to the Explore page

• Maps, with a link to the Map Builder

• Charts, with a link to the Chart Builder

• API, with a link to the Search API console

• Documentation, with a link to the Opendatasoft Help Hub

We highly advise to keep in the navigation header the link to the Explore page that contains the datasets catalog of the portal.

If you add a page made with the Code Editor or the Studio, only the users that has permissions to view the page will see the link in the header

To configure the navigation header, look for the Header configuration in the Navigation configuration interface.

1. Click on the + Add menu item button.

2. In the textbox of the Page URL column, write or paste the link to the new item. External links must start with http:// or https://

3. (optional) If the link is an external one, tick the Open link in a new tab/window option box for it to do so.

4. In the textbox(es) of the Label column, write the label of the menu item that will be displayed in the navigation header. There should be one label per language available on the portal.

5. (optional) Click on the reordering icon to place the menu item in a chosen position among the other menu items.

1. Click on the trash icon to delete a menu item.

2. Click on the Save button in the top right corner.